Betting preview: Iztapa vs Municipal should be interesting

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Competition: Guatemala Liga Nacional
Competition: Sun 27.February
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Municipal El Morón (3000 seats)

It's only zero sleeps since Iztapa met Municipal and the scoreline was 1-1. How will it end against Municipal?

Insights:
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (13) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (18) in Liga Nacional

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Iztapa form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estadio Municipal El Morón as Iztapa have scored 19 goals to get 25 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Liga Nacional are 8-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

Iztapa drew their last game, also a home match. Municipal was the opponent, 1-1 the score.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Antigua GFC.

This is expected to be a close game, with Iztapa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Iztapa as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Iztapa has won seven of these, drawn three and lost one.

Iztapa have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Municipal El Morón with 19 goals in 11 league matches. Iztapa are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Municipal El Morón in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 11 matches.

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Municipal form and stats

4 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Municipal, who have the most clean sheets (18) in Liga Nacional, playing as the away team in the Liga Nacional this season.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Iztapa in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1.

Before that, Municipal secured a home win against Coban Imperial with the score 3-2.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Municipal playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were five Municipal wins, three draws and seven defeats.

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (8 so far). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The newest logged match involving both these contenders is the Iztapa - Municipal 1-0 played not long ago this season. Previous ten meetings between these participants: Iztapa won two, Municipal triumphed in four and we saw four draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less. Martínez likes to face Iztapa and have scored 8 goals in these games.

Top Goalscorers

MunicipalJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
13 goals
IztapaC. Félix Suénaga
C. Félix Suénaga
9 goals
IztapaC. Hernández
C. Hernández
6 goals

Iztapa missing players

Municipal missing players

Iztapa Municipal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 16 5 Played P 6 18 35
9 9 3 Won W 4 7 16
8 4 1 Drew D 2 5 11
16 3 1 Lost L 0 6 8
39 24 6 Scored S 11 19 45
53 15 3 Conceded C 2 12 24
97% 94% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 89% 86%
61% 50% 20% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 50% 54%
42% 31% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 22% 31%
27% 25% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 6% 17%
21% 19% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 6% 9%
48% 44% 20% BTTS BTTS 33% 33% 34%
18% 38% 60% Clean Sheets C S 67% 44% 51%
36% 25% 40% Failed to Score F T 17% 33% 29%
 
5.5 5.9 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.9 4.9
2.9 2.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.2 3.8 3.8
1.9 2.1 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.8 2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 2 2 5
 
9.1 10.1 9.2 Shots (avg) S ( 4.3 6.9 8
2.8 2.9 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.4 3.4
40% 48% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 79% 31% 39%
 
9.9 7.9 6 Shots against (avg) S A 6.5 7.8 8.2
3.4 2.2 0.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 2.8 2.8
Key stats in Liga Nacional this season:
  • Iztapa have the most points from losing position (13) in Liga Nacional
  • Iztapa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Municipal have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (12) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have the most clean sheets (18) in Liga Nacional
  • Municipal have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Antigua GFC 22 14 4 4 36 13 11 8 3 0 25 7 11 6 1 4 11 6 23 46
2 Comunicaciones 22 13 5 4 37 19 11 7 3 1 21 9 11 6 2 3 16 10 18 44
3 Municipal 22 11 6 5 30 15 11 7 3 1 19 7 11 4 3 4 11 8 15 39
4 Malacateco 22 10 6 6 36 23 11 8 1 2 25 9 11 2 5 4 11 14 13 36
5 Santa Lucia 22 8 12 2 28 25 11 4 6 1 16 13 11 4 6 1 12 12 3 36
6 Xelaju 22 8 6 8 18 23 11 6 3 2 12 4 11 2 3 6 6 19 -5 30
7 Iztapa 22 8 4 10 30 36 11 8 1 2 19 10 11 0 3 8 11 26 -6 28
8 Solola 22 6 7 9 21 32 11 3 3 5 11 17 11 3 4 4 10 15 -11 25
9 Guastatoya 22 5 8 9 18 23 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 1 3 7 5 12 -5 23
10 Coban Imperial 22 5 5 12 22 31 11 3 3 5 9 10 11 2 2 7 13 21 -9 20
11 Achuapa 22 3 7 12 12 24 11 3 2 6 5 10 11 0 5 6 7 14 -12 16
12 Nueva Concepción 22 4 4 14 12 36 11 4 4 3 9 9 11 0 0 11 3 27 -24 16

Read more about Liga Nacional

Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatamala (National football league of Guatemala) is the top level of Guatemalan football. It was formerly known as Liga Mayor “A”. It was founded in 1919. The league has twelve teams meeting each other twice in two stages, Apertura and Clausura.